An information activist is someone who works to make information available to the general population. Library and Information Scientist

Library and information science

Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...

 Anthony Molaro coined the term in 2009: "An information activist is a vigorous advocate of knowledge gained through study, communication, research or instruction." .

The founder of Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...

, Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....

, was called an information activist by the USA Network

USA Network

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In Librarianship

Carla Diane Hayden was quoted in describing librarians of today as women and men, "who are activists, engaged in the social work aspect of librarianship...Now we are fighters for freedom, and we cause trouble! We are not sitting quietly anymore."

Library Juice Press

Library Juice Press is a publisher that specializes in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science. They began as the webzine and blog Library Juice and still hold no affiliations to an academic institution. Some topics they investigate are: library philosophy, information policy, library activism, and in general anything that can be placed under the rubric of "critical studies in librarianship."

Library Juice Press is an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC.

See Also

• Information criticism
  Information criticism
  Information criticism is by Lash understood as a transformation of critical theory to contend that today there is no longer any transcendental, objective, or privileged position from which critique or socialanalysis can be undertaken...
  
  
• Information wants to be free
  Information wants to be free
  Information wants to be free is a slogan of technology activists invoked against limiting access to information. According to criticism of intellectual property rights, the system of governmental control of exclusivity is in conflict with the development of a public domain of...
  
  
• Freedom of information legislation
  Freedom of information legislation
  Freedom of information legislation comprises laws that guarantee access to data held by the state. They establish a "right-to-know" legal process by which requests may be made for government-held information, to be received freely or at minimal cost, barring standard exceptions...
  
  
• Zine
  Zine
  A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
  
  
• Free culture movement
  Free Culture movement
  The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media....
  
  
• Freedom of information
  Freedom of information
  Freedom of information refers to the protection of the right to freedom of expression with regards to the Internet and information technology . Freedom of information may also concern censorship in an information technology context, i.e...
  
  
• Librarians without Borders

External Links

Librarians without Borders

http://liswiki.org/wiki/Advocacy

Radical Reference

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